the latest news in the week's a top stories here on our team more accusations of a clampdown on freedom in egypt as a popular social networking site to use by the end to reach the movement is shut down amid fresh demonstrations against the islamic government. while similar scenes have been unfolding in the birthplace of the arab spring in geneva where protests against the government to ignited by the murder of a prominent opposition figure. taunts and protests as a mozzie a hopeful john brennan's confirmation hearing while senators shy from probing his extensive history of drones and torture and targeted executions. a divisive and tough negotiator the e.u. budget a risk on revelator with the european parliament are threatening to veto the austerity written package. plots so russia's the black sea resort of sorties the brave the

one year to go before the start of the most expensive winter olympics ever a major major reshuffle is among the games officials with a key organizer quiet. it's nine am here in moscow you're watching are you with me to moments it's good to have you with us. it's been another regular restless week for egypt with plumes of smoke in teargas covering the country's main cities following street battles between anti-government protesters and the police. armed with stones and petrol bombs have been unleashing their anger against islamist president mohamed morsi the political turmoil has also been fueled by the authorities decision to block the video sharing web site you tube for a month or hosting

a controversial anti islam film party is a reporter from the capital cairo on how the motion has been perceived by the opposition. there's been a lot of her condemnation of the banned by protest movements to see you tube as a vital resource for disseminating information about human rights abuses by the security forces it's also an indication of an islam mind zation all of egypt has been a number of quite controversial statements made by these hardline muslim. including a religious edict calling proposition forces to be killed and a muslim cleric speaking to the egyptian tonneau justifying its sex more attacks on egyptian protesters in tahrir square what we really fear here in egypt is this will only fuel for the violence on the streets we've had a very restive country here in egypt in the last few weeks especially since the second anniversary of the journey went into five revolution when thousands gathered in the streets of egypt complaining that president ahmed morsi had not made to keep

changes in demands of the revolution friday we saw more protests as part of friday's day of dignity thousands of protesters gathered across the main rallying points in this in the country which devolved into clashes between protesters and security forces in the capital here by the presidential palace. the building with molotov they were pushed back by take us and water cannons and so bloody of violence in the in the governor with unconfirmed deaths in couple shake as well as violent clashes and. we have more protests on the horizon with further expected violence we don't see this finishing anytime soon. egyptian journalist and blogger why you ask and says a nothing's changed is the revolution which overthrew the autocratic rule of president mubarak two years ago. what the muslim brotherhood right now is trying to do is restore autocratic rule and much like the mubarak method of governing and i think the way the political actors see

it is that mubarak was not ruthless enough and did not sign freedoms enough to sustain his rule and this is what they're trying to remedy the you tube verdict comes in light of. you know many other decisions that clamp down on freedoms and it's no surprise that they will try to install the infrastructure necessary to clamp down on. various websites that they see as a threat to their rule one other thing we've seen as well is admins of facebook pages who are critical of the muslim brotherhood are being targeted and we've we're seeing more of these kind of clampdowns either in the physical realm and now they're moving on to doing it technically through you know through you tube and various other sites we can expect more of that. another country that still looking for stability following the arab spring is tunisia the country's witness public fury this week following the assassination of a key opposition figure on wednesday crowds of protesters from the streets of the

capital tunis appending the blameful chokri belaid murder on the islamist government the demonstrators made a tough response from riot police a time to see that the tension the prime minister has pledged to form a nonpartisan government next week ahead of a snap election the proposal however was rejected. pati international relations professor mark alderman says of a government a will now struggle to survive. had been presented as the nearest thing to a success story there had been too much violence but unfortunately as i say these disappointments with the failure to make life better life we got worse and the sense that there is a strict truth that takes many people away from whom did it strike you one of the place you will violence in the fall westerners in iraq here are being presented as mismanaged it seems from the. you know of the party so there may be deep resentment against what is really pretty simple for people not mobile

majority and i think the general feeling is that its level of support has slipped since those elections. about the coming elections and whether we will get those elections without a real political crisis on the streets in. mali and rebels like carrying up for terror warfare while civilians are suffering in a worsening the military tries this was supplies lacking and most delivery routes blocked by the wall we've got the story. and predicted years of belt tightening and severe austerity cuts here there are tens of thousands of angry citizens protests in cities all across the country against the cards but some experts saying all government efforts are way to end the crisis. a champion of joint strikes and barack obama's pick to head the cia john brennan faces senate confirmation hearing this week the surgeon started the hogs but it wasn't lawmakers who were the most vocal from the onset jitters and catcalls

erupted from the audience until the judge ordered to the protests to be removed lawmakers then poked and prodded brennan on torture cia shot comings and targeted executions though seriously reluctant to challenge him on his answers but it given his perform. and at the senate activist and author david swanson a surprise he was nominated in the first place with. someone who was deemed unacceptable four years free vs because of his involvement in torture and rendition is now acceptable the clothes he engages in a program of murder and the goodness of the murder outweighs the bad list of the torture recent polls found that while only twenty four percent of americans support killing americans it's drones eighty three percent support killing nine americans with drones so there is a clear bias you can do the math and see what percentage of americans are bigots or i dragged before us court charged with mass murder i could not say your honor i

have a memo was drafted explaining why this is ok and a president should not be able to do that either but that seems to be where the debate is going on. chairing now awaits john brennan in order to i am sensitive technicalities but already speculation as wife is a what direction he might take the cia but on the issue of drones as are his gannets as you can report his confirmation could only broaden the horizon for america's unmanned plane. in the shadows no more drones are moving into the mainstream with drone makers and the u.s. military pushing to defend the killing drones are more properly titled remotely piloted vehicles allow us to do is to project capability without projecting vulnerability in their revolutionizing warfare by allowing us to see and. from half a world away a major drone manufacturer lockheed martin has financed an hour long documentary on

drones aired recently on u.s. public television counting the technological capabilities of the killing machine from trailers like this pilots of the predator and its larger cousin the reaper have killed thousands of individual since two thousand and one using remotely piloted aircraft. contrary to popular belief actually provides the greatest degree of ethical oversight for their use of this young man in pakistan he would probably disagree several of his family members died at the remote chance of a grown up more than a thousand other civilians were reportedly killed by u.s. drone strikes in pakistan and yemen we find ourselves murdering people in many cases children with no evidence whatsoever that they're involved in any criminal or terrorist activity so the numbers should not come as a surprise considering the broad definition the obama administration gives as to who should be on their kill list the leaked memo on targeted assassinations on the us justice department suggests the us government can kill people even without

evidence that they are actively plotting against america if you extend the logic or studio logic being proud by the white house now you come to the lift you might say that we're in danger of going over we're getting very close to zero thought crimes that if somebody a u.s. citizen or otherwise is believed to be thinking something that could lead to actions against the united states then this illogical logic would present the idea that it would be ok for the president to order that that person be killed despite the u.n. raising concerns about the legality of the use of drones the u.s. has said to expand its remote control warfare setting up new drone bases across the world drama has redefined war there an intervention in libya he made the case that the war powers act in a private because there was no risk to american soldiers and so under that rationale he can expand the global war while in his state of the union address

claiming that we don't need perpetual war for peace but it is perpetual war when you can drop bombs on any country and then claim that it's not working john brennan often referred to as the architect of the administration's drone war which counts the new opportunity. for the u.s. to wage wars without risking american lives there's another reason a targeted strikes can be a wise choice to strategic consequences very heavily come with the use of force. as we have seen deploying large armies abroad won't always be our best offense all in all the u.s. now has around ten thousand drones in its fleet not all of them carry weapons of course a lot of them are for surveillance both domestic and international there's a great push both from the administration and the drone makers to present them as america's next best thing john brennan if confirmed will soon be at the helm of the cia and no one doubts that under him the program will expand even further in

washington i'm going to shoot down. well drones aren't the only thing about the cia causing controversy at the moment and next hour we'll tell you how thousands of americans are forced to take lie detector tests to keep their jobs often having to answer very intimate questions. a twenty five hour marathon off talks snubs and haggling have left you with a new budget a bagel one that's a been described as perfect for nobody coming in at nine hundred sixty billion euros it's the first time the block spending plan has been cut in this history the differences of opinion with visible along a joke graphical to do with traditionally wealthier countries from the north are led by britain calling for cuts in reflection of continents wide austerity but france and poor a e.u. states are resistant with the spread between opposing leaders threaten to undermine the troops and to robert oulds a chair of the brogues a group a think tank or says it always better disunity within the. we've seen the limits of

integration here we have different national interests clearly colliding and there is the situation for national governments are having to impose austerity across europe. not just in the eurozone but also in britain because of course there's just the money available but of course there is also another issue to do with the budget and that's to that's to do with the fact that eighteen years now the european court of order to is haven't been able to sign off awfully the accounts because a lot of the spending is goes on wasteful projects but of course more alarmingly it's also subject to a great deal of forth and corruption and that's why little in eighteen years the accounts haven't been fully signed off. while the deal in visions or sweeping cuts to a number of e.u. projects including integration and infrastructure but millions of euros are reportedly still allocated for a so-called p.r.

blitz against the blocs critics on social media websites euro skeptics nigel farage from the u.k. independence of party says the project would violate one of the main principles of the european parliament. they decided that they got to train in how staff in the run up to the european elections of twenty fourteen train those people to go online to look at facebook twitter and other social media sites and to correct that's their word not mine to correct any misapprehensions that may exist about the european union and i have to say the fact that it's a parliament that is doing this that is using taxpayers' money to do this says a lot about the institutions that the whole point about parliaments is the person is it's him a chair of parliament he's the speaker in westminster he's the chairman in other parliaments around the world but he and all the rest of a staff are supposed to be neutral they're not supposed to take any political

position at all and the fact that the parliament has decided it's going to spend money time and resources doing this shows you that frankly they're no better than a banana republic this is all the mcgarvie would do or someone like that and i think many people outside would be shocked by it having worked there myself as a thirteen years i'm not surprised at all they are really really scared they're scared that from north to south to east to west all over the european union citizens are saying we've never voted for this thing to become the united states of europe we've never asked to have the majority of our laws made somewhere else and we want to do something about it so they're scared and they're fighting back. protests have flooded the streets of at least six cities in ireland with tens of thousands of people demonstrating against austerity measures across the country the public face years of severe cuts after the state's banking system was crippled by

the financial crisis medical bitch of. a financial adviser says that despite all the government's efforts island is still on the road to ruin i think you. could be . wrong we're going to come. forward. with a group who are overcome very who formerly. from the. former european we already. have ended up we. will come to the bar and therefore. they're suffering a great deal more are. we going to be. more pressure or mark. where you could your of. power. abuse or neglect of the most of vulnerable of patients in

a major u.k. hospital be the brunt of lackluster care from hell the british and also when they needed most that's coming up. also tracking you down in the u.k. parliament is considering new laws that would let of priorities pry into the private internet communications of the british public. giant clocks on taking all over russia officially starting the countdown until the beginning of the sochi winter olympics the black sea results through a spellbinding celebration marking one year until the games get underway archies andrew farmer looks at the construction already completed and how much work is still ahead. fireworks lit up the sochi sky this week marking exactly a year to go before the winter games begin since two thousand and seven piece by piece the city has been putting its elim picturing together in the company in charge of construction says russia will be ready but. we plan to introduce all the

facilities before the games start training facilities are ready practically all of them of hosted test competitions all hotels and limpid villages are in the final phase of construction being referred to and furnished the show jewels to open in the autumn we plan to complete construction long before the end of the year said personnel can train a managers can gain experience in providing a good service however such a vast undertaking has not been without its problems presentation was in the region this week to check on progress and was taking no prisoners ski jumping center the any venue not yet up and running and it sparked this exchange with russian olympic officials are the costs of this whole facility costing what's the overall. initially we were assessing the amount of the loan. what's a rough estimate. this initial price of one point two billion now it's a. one point two billion has turned into

a billion yes well done good work let's move on. it resulted in the sacking of a key member of russia's alan thicke committee at fifty billion dollars the sochi games will be the most expensive in italy history they have cost ten times more than the last winter games in vancouver and ten billion dollars more than if they knew someone gains however the results can already be seen and they are impressive if you do take a quick look around you can see what money can buy at the center of the olympic park which has six venues all within a stone's throw of each other to host the curling the skating and the ice hockey and this is the june. the crime the bolshoi i studied. the past arena was she strikes spectacular skating show i was part of the countdown celebrations and in a year's time it will how you speak and in the ice hockey finals in d.c. meet subtropical like ation the slogan for thought she twenty fourteen is hot cool

your top because he didn't pick pockets them by the blacks in case there i'm cold because all the alpine events or take place alone just forty kilometers away. progress is rapid up there to the rows of poor resorts has sprung up from nowhere to become the home of alpine skiing by a lone cross country courses have also been created along with the bob sleigh track and a road a really well and i spectators to get from the mountains to the coast in just a few minutes sochi itself has undergone massive upheaval as kilometers of road am rail lines are put in place a new hotels are built but the mayor believes the region will reap the benefits for years to come. our residents are aware of the conditions they have to face during changes especially on the disc and we certainly have many inconveniences because there's not a single street in sochi without renovation going on the roads are regularly dug up

which causes traffic jams all the time however the residents are aware that it's necessary for their future those brilliant future. then has been overhauled in just six years but the transformation easel most complete and the black sea resort believes it can and will deliver the games to remember this time next year andrew farmer. self chief. there limp experience even to reach a new yorker this week as un chief ban ki-moon joined the celebrations at the organizations headquarters just to remind those action lovers among you don't want to miss the games tickets already on sale and up a level on. there

can be a clampdown on online privacy in the u.k. that's if the government has its way and new jobs bill or snoopers charter as it's being done to would let authorities check people's internet and mobile phone use it's in the name of national security but there are serious concerns that it's a step too far executive director of the open rights group jim killers says that if the bills introduced at the government could get its hands on any information it one. snoopers child has a bill that would allow the government to collect data about everybody online and into data mining that data so it's not just about the guilty it is not just about records being kept is not just about serious people serious criminals who need to be tracked is about the potential of anybody in law enforcement to get hold of any information about anybody just about anything that you do would be detectable through the information trails you need we need the home office of publish detailed

proposals so that we can see whether they're in any way workable what the damage would be and have a proper serious debate about those proposals. a massive explosion has rocked the area near molly's north korean city of girls some ten ten kilometers away from a french military base it came hours after a suicide bombing was prevented in the same city fears have been escalated throughout the week after islamic extremists leaders vowed to keep up a guerrilla war against french backed local troops security is being tightened at military checkpoints to prevent terror attacks the french army says its military operation is almost complete and it's preparing to hand over to a un peacekeeping force john that lochlann from the paris institute off democracy and cooperation believes the intervention could be part of a wider campaign for western domination of africa i think the two main factors in this of france's own desire to strengthen the whole role on the international stage

in particular piece of being a european audience and also the american strict future plans for africa it's important to know that america which strongly supports fronts in this mali and intervention has plans for establishing a military presence in the military control over the whole of the african continent some people speculated that used to produce that this was america leading from behind that america decided to put forward its european allies to do as it were it starts to work with the securing of energy resources is one of the key factors behind many if not most political developments today and that's why i say that the of course the issue of. carbons and uranium and other energy sources is a key and even be the decisive factor. huge health care abuse scandal has erupted in the u.k. this week a public inquiry has found hundreds of patients of it at the hands of health

workers to toss with looking after them the british prime minister david cameron has officially apologize for the suffering caused but the issue only looks like it's growing archies politico reports from staff at hospital my wife started hospital in september two thousand and eight it was just a disaster is a total chaos when you walk through do you smell people you know do you know stuff available for you. the boys that was left to reach. or into mines new shoes on the floor we've been there since breakfast on. should be. lining right for you see. maybe kerry who wasn't given to. the death of john's wife is just one of the many horror stories term from the now notorious stuff but hospital relatives say it was a lack of compassion on behalf of the staff that stripped many sick people of that

dignity so much before that so anyone can describe people not just in. song. in the most horrible circumstances. the ninety nine p. she'd have to go through what she went through julie baby's mother died at stafford and what she calls appalling circumstances but when she blew the whistle on the hospital's practice says she was faced with a cover up all the evidence was there that the hospital mid staffs was failing and yet the that was never shared with the public and i believe the same as in all the hospitals it's so much that a string of senior officials failed to take seriously data which showed the hospital significantly higher than average death rates relatives of over a thousand p. . people never got to see them discharged from this hospital patients died needlessly off the suffering a catalogue of neglect left in their own excrement dehydrated and without

painkillers it's the biggest scandal to have hit the national health service in recent years but with budgets being slashed and red tape preoccupying hospital manages person's health secretary is warning that there are little bits of stuff that should all across the u.k.'s health system the results of the public inquiry into the hospital's failings are expected to issue a damning verdict on the way the whole of the n.h.s. functions is soul destroying. this a bit of stuff that everyone has got to make say you know it's got to be made safe tomorrow because people can't continue to suffer but even with the glare of a public inquiry and the media spotlight it hasn't stopped last month it emerged that a former unfold baby being treated for breathing problems was found with a dummy taped to his mouth to keep him quiet the nurse being investigated for the incident is the third member of staff at star to be disciplined in the last six

months the hospital's chief executive has said we're sorry that despite the progress that has been made there are still some instances of care which fall below that which we want to provide sorry might be too late but the tide of public anger swelling campaigners say it's time for westminster to overhaul persons beleaguered health service before any more lives and a needless to last party boyko r t staff it. coming up we take an in-depth look at the occupy movement in the us that's after the break here on martine.